On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:51:32PM +0200, Kevin Michael Frick wrote: > what do you use to communicate with the part of the world (a majority, > unfortunately) who uses suckish formats such as .doc(x), .od[tspg] or > whatever? If Office is bloated, LibreOffice ain't slim, and people > keep sending me word documents :/
Almost my entire broader community uses LaTeX as the primary format. However, I have noticed that most people are able and willing to use PDF as a document interchange format for most things now. For my personal documents that need formatting of some sort or another I tend to prefer using something like the Heirloom Documentation Tools, which is a troff with UTF-8 and OTF support. So, the only real need for docx or the like formats for most people I think, is when you actually have to collaborate on a document. In that case, I think you're stuck with one of the larger applications that aren't very great because you need a degree of compatibility. However, if you can use PDF, I would use that instead, and if you can do it one better and get them to use something like plain text, even better. -- Aaron W. Hsu | arcf...@sacrideo.us | http://www.sacrideo.us
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